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Nursery School

From an early age, it is important to help children recognize that learning is an enjoyable activity. Our Nursery educational goal is to grow and learn, challenge and stimulate children.

Your child will have a lot of opportunities to interact with kids of similar ages. This can help them learn, grow and mature. Your child will be exposed to a wide range of activities including art, music and dance.

Early learning advantages of early childhood education include inspiring a love of learning. We learn through play. Our Nursery goal is based on the following categories; health and motor development, socio-emotional development, language, communication and literacy development, and general knowledge acquisition.

Your child can develop his/her social skills while interacting with others, can develop his/her social skills with adults, be able to recognize and respect the similarities and differences between people, and develop the concept of ''self''.

MOTOR DEVELOPMENT.

This category is based on the fitness of your child. We try to see if your child is able to balance while running, if he/she is able to control parts of their body, is able to establish control of hand and finger movements and also able to manipulate toys and various objects for general use.

SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

This category is based on how children interact with other children in class and in the school as a whole. We try to see if they can develop their social skills while interacting with others, can develop his/her social skills with adults, is able to recognize and respect the similarities and difference between people, and develop the concept of ''self''. We also learn how children control their feelings and how they express their feelings towards other people.

LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND LITERACY DEVELOPMENT

This is a category based on pre-reading and pre-write; including speaking. We try to see if the child has listening and comprehension ability of the spoken language, is able to talk and communicate with others. It also includes how the child shows interest for printed materials used in class, if the child joins the activities related to writing, if he/she is able to recognize the written symbols and letters, and if the child can express their individual ideas through written symbols and letters.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION

This category is based on the general knowledge that the student gets in class. In this category, we try to see if the child demonstrates the knowledge of quantity, numbers, and counting, the child demonstrates the ability for classification and seriation, the child observes and describes the characteristics of the animate and inanimate world, and if the child gains the information about their surroundings through observation and manipulation. It also includes how the child demonstrates interest in participating in different types of visual creativity and participating in musical activities.

The American International School of Niamey is a non-profit, tuition-based, coeducational private international day school, serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade